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A lot of against & some for the smarts here... rather than just steam off & insist tv's need to be dumb, I feel like we need a return to what worked, to the pc
by rektide 5y ago
A lot of against & some for the smarts here... rather than just steam off & insist tv's need to be dumb, I feel like we need a return to what worked, to the pc era.
Sure Windows 3.1 and beyond were rip roaringly popular but there were always other OS options. We never got locked into unseemly paths. Maybe TV just need to embed small x86 computers, to handle the smart side?
Admittedly there's little actual competition in most os arenas. Apple versus either Microsoft or Google. And Microsoft appears to be going evil, with spyware & adware since their install-base is seemingly unshakeable. But hey, the idea of choice might bring some sunlight to disinfect these situations. Do you want a tv that runs ChromeOS, Android, or GoogleTV? Or webOS or Roku or Tizen? Rather than separate sticks I feel like a real/done well smart tv would have modularity. Alas we just dont expect good things from companies & technology in today's world.
- car_analogy 5y ago> choice might bring some sunlight to disinfect these situations [..] Rather than separate sticks I feel like a real/done well smart tv would have modularity. At that point, why not make the hardware itself modular? The monitor acts as a dumb picture display, controlled by an arbitrary device - a PC, a Roku, ChromeOS, whatever the buyer chooses. And we're back at square one. The reason manufacturers are moving away from this is because the lack of choice and modularity is the whole point. It lets them push misfeatures onto the user, with no recourse.